Emails
or electronic mails are a form of communication of the 20th century
and now carried over to the new millenium. It is a very handy way of
contacting people, of exchanging notes, and news about, between
persons, and among people.
Besides
being a medium for getting messages across, it is also a tool for
attacks of people against those that they do not like very much.
I was a victim of such an attack not a few years ago just because I supported the Reproductive Health bill before it was passed with flying colors by Philippine Congress. I did not bother to sue the email sender because she is too advanced in age and I might be the cause of her early demise had I really drawn the pen against her. But a threat of my filing a case against her finally shut her up.
You know what she threatened to do against me? That she would campaign hard against me so that I would not become a senator. Maybe her dubious ties go all the way to the Comelec which has shown nearsightedness every time I file my candidacy. -- 2004, 2010 and 2016.
To me, it is impossible to commit any wrongdoing for any official using a private email to communicate about public matters. What is wrong about that? I cannot understand the bruhaha in the US Presidential elections about the emails of Hillary. No policy can ever emanate from an email, to my mind. A policy must be issued in hard copy. And so the emails that she, or anyone uses, could be considered informal communication, not until they are printed, I suppose.
So, I am really wondering how an email could rock the chances of anyone running for president in any country that is.
Like this question of whether the past dictator in the Philippines should be buried "daw" at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. He was a soldier and so his corpse needs to be buried there acc. to his family. But then, let us ask what is a hero? Do we only look at his life microscopically, only during that time that he was a soldier or his whole lifetime? Shouldn't his total number of years of stay on this planet be assessed, especially as he was called a president at that time, and not just that minute time that he spent wearing boots and uniform?
Come on people, let us have higher standards for raising a president. The attacks on Hillary are symptomatic of a society that is fixated I think on tools and gadgets and not the over-all picture of how humans should live on this planet. Given her stature and comparing that to the other guy, I think that all of her pronouncements about what policies to pursue, pale very much to the charges that are being revived, if there are any, against her.
Let us look at this planet, this earth and choose who and which people are worthwhile being with for the rest of our lives, who can make our stay here worthwhile.
A media-savvy candidate who cannot mouthe nor analyze lengthily a policy I think would be a warning that he would be shortcutting many things in society, in the political life of the nation.
Actually, when the Philippine candidates were campaigning here, my reading of some were quite accurate. History has shown some of the candidates' inability to rise above their vulnerabilities. But the people have spoken. The people chose on the basis of intuitiveness, their intuition. I don't really know if they are happy with their choice now.
It would take a great leap to do something that would turn the sights of the people on the higher things in life. And a candidate, or an official has to know how -- how to affect not just the physical but also the soul of the nation.
In the beginning of martial law, Marcos seemed like the good president who could hold us together. He and Imelda even embraced nationalism, physically; hence they looked adorable in their barong and baro't saya, respectively, But later on their true colors emerged -- the millions of dollars, the classic paintings and artworks stashed abroad under the names of their "alalays," and the impenetrable shield to cover up their kleptocratic regime.
So Folks, mga Kababayan sa Amerika, give us your best efforts to elect a candidate for the presidency over there, someone whom we will remember as the president who respects the Filipino people, who will raise our dignity, not just for ourselves but for the world, and who will not be ashamed to say, "I love the Filipino people.
I was a victim of such an attack not a few years ago just because I supported the Reproductive Health bill before it was passed with flying colors by Philippine Congress. I did not bother to sue the email sender because she is too advanced in age and I might be the cause of her early demise had I really drawn the pen against her. But a threat of my filing a case against her finally shut her up.
You know what she threatened to do against me? That she would campaign hard against me so that I would not become a senator. Maybe her dubious ties go all the way to the Comelec which has shown nearsightedness every time I file my candidacy. -- 2004, 2010 and 2016.
To me, it is impossible to commit any wrongdoing for any official using a private email to communicate about public matters. What is wrong about that? I cannot understand the bruhaha in the US Presidential elections about the emails of Hillary. No policy can ever emanate from an email, to my mind. A policy must be issued in hard copy. And so the emails that she, or anyone uses, could be considered informal communication, not until they are printed, I suppose.
So, I am really wondering how an email could rock the chances of anyone running for president in any country that is.
Like this question of whether the past dictator in the Philippines should be buried "daw" at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. He was a soldier and so his corpse needs to be buried there acc. to his family. But then, let us ask what is a hero? Do we only look at his life microscopically, only during that time that he was a soldier or his whole lifetime? Shouldn't his total number of years of stay on this planet be assessed, especially as he was called a president at that time, and not just that minute time that he spent wearing boots and uniform?
Come on people, let us have higher standards for raising a president. The attacks on Hillary are symptomatic of a society that is fixated I think on tools and gadgets and not the over-all picture of how humans should live on this planet. Given her stature and comparing that to the other guy, I think that all of her pronouncements about what policies to pursue, pale very much to the charges that are being revived, if there are any, against her.
Let us look at this planet, this earth and choose who and which people are worthwhile being with for the rest of our lives, who can make our stay here worthwhile.
A media-savvy candidate who cannot mouthe nor analyze lengthily a policy I think would be a warning that he would be shortcutting many things in society, in the political life of the nation.
Actually, when the Philippine candidates were campaigning here, my reading of some were quite accurate. History has shown some of the candidates' inability to rise above their vulnerabilities. But the people have spoken. The people chose on the basis of intuitiveness, their intuition. I don't really know if they are happy with their choice now.
It would take a great leap to do something that would turn the sights of the people on the higher things in life. And a candidate, or an official has to know how -- how to affect not just the physical but also the soul of the nation.
In the beginning of martial law, Marcos seemed like the good president who could hold us together. He and Imelda even embraced nationalism, physically; hence they looked adorable in their barong and baro't saya, respectively, But later on their true colors emerged -- the millions of dollars, the classic paintings and artworks stashed abroad under the names of their "alalays," and the impenetrable shield to cover up their kleptocratic regime.
So Folks, mga Kababayan sa Amerika, give us your best efforts to elect a candidate for the presidency over there, someone whom we will remember as the president who respects the Filipino people, who will raise our dignity, not just for ourselves but for the world, and who will not be ashamed to say, "I love the Filipino people.
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